VP, Cybersecurity Operations – Engineering

Job Description:

  • Lead enterprise cybersecurity operations and engineering programs, including strategy, risk governance, roadmap development, budgeting, KPI reporting, and executive communications
  • Contribute to cybersecurity policies, standards, procedures, and control frameworks
  • Develop governance forums, steering committee materials, risk updates, and business cases for senior leadership
  • Partner with legal, compliance, privacy, internal audit, technology, and business stakeholders
  • Drive consistent security practices across corporate, cloud, application, and business environments
  • Translate threat, control, and assessment findings into prioritized remediation plans
  • Provide executive oversight for SOC/MSSP performance, alert monitoring, incident triage, escalation management, and operational readiness
  • Own incident response planning, runbooks, tabletop exercises, and cross-functional response coordination
  • Oversee threat intelligence, threat detection, threat hunting, and vulnerability management capabilities
  • Ensure preparedness to protect, detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity events
  • Develop and monitor operational metrics and service-level indicators
  • Oversee cybersecurity technology and control capabilities across on-premises, cloud, endpoint, identity, and network domains
  • Partner with infrastructure, platform, and software engineering teams to embed security into architecture and workflows
  • Support secure development lifecycle, software assurance, secure coding, and application security initiatives
  • Guide selection and optimization of SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, firewalls, vulnerability management, logging, monitoring, and protection technologies
  • Promote automation, orchestration, and process simplification
  • Lead cyber risk assessments across infrastructure, applications, vendors, business processes, and emerging technologies
  • Support compliance and control maturity for NIST, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, SOC, SOX, GDPR, privacy, and other requirements
  • Provide security leadership for vendor reviews, architectural reviews, major initiatives, and transformation programs
  • Build relationships with business and technology leaders to enable growth, resilience, and informed risk-taking
  • Champion security awareness, education, and culture-building efforts
  • Lead, coach, and develop cybersecurity managers and individual contributors
  • Foster accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and service-oriented partnership
  • Mentor technical teams on incident response, operational excellence, architecture, and executive communication
  • Maintain the cyber risk register and risk governance process
  • Support procurement calendar, budget, actuals, strategy documents, project portfolios, roadmaps, and C-suite/IT leadership materials

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
  • 12+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including leadership of enterprise security programs in complex, high-growth, or globally distributed organizations
  • 7+ years of leadership experience managing managers, cross-functional teams, and/or external service providers across multiple cybersecurity domains
  • Demonstrated success building or maturing cybersecurity governance, program management, security operations, and security engineering capabilities
  • Strong working knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory requirements, and assurance practices, including NIST CSF, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, SOC, SOX, data privacy, and related standards
  • Experience leading or overseeing incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, detection engineering, and security monitoring programs
  • Strong technical understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, endpoint protection, network security, logging and monitoring, system hardening, and enterprise security architecture
  • Experience working closely with software development and infrastructure teams to integrate security into lifecycle management, architecture, and operational processes
  • Proven ability to define metrics, communicate risk clearly, and present meaningful security insights to operational, technical, and executive stakeholders
  • Strong business judgment and ability to balance risk reduction, operational efficiency, and strategic enablement
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to influence across all levels of the organization
  • Must be based in one of the listed remote locations: New York, Connecticut, California, New Jersey, Texas, or Ohio

Benefits:

  • Short- and long-term incentives
  • Growth and developmental opportunities
  • Health care
  • Retirement
  • Vacation and other paid time off
  • Additional offerings
  • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
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